It all depends if you enjoy your job or not. When I’m on holiday I have no erge to take my lorry with me but when I’m on the way back from where ever I look forward to getting back to it. I drove through France last month and saw some nice trucks I wouldn’t of minded taking round the block whilst I was there but that’s because trucks interest me. For some it’s just a tool and the Job pays the bills. For others the job is much more. Their truck,either owned by themselves or by the company is their pride and joy who’s to say what either party are wrong?. Maybe I’m just sad Ill wash mine on a lunch break or go up on a Sunday if I’m bored and her indoors is trying to get me to go to asda but my week goes alot quicker driving something I like and doing something I enjoy then it would if I hated the job and couldn’t wait to get away.
switchlogic:
Fulham FC:
My God, I can’t wait to finish work and get home and leave lorry driving behind me until tomorrow, once home it’s gone . Why don’t you take up Eddie Stobbart spotting when your off work? Or even better get a bird or some mates and get a life. I bet you’ve got one of them Big ( insert name here) stickers on your lorry, possibly the sadest people of all time . I think I’m a bit sad joining up to a lorry drivers forum, bit needs must. Being on holiday and looking at foreign trucks? No I’m out getting ■■■■■■ having a laugh like normal people do.You’ve been on Trucknet less than a month and already starting to sound like a stuck record. Well done, quite an achievement
Fulham FC like the ■■■■ you meet in the RDC waiting room 
you wished you was late or send else where
Fulham FC:
I’ve had a drink tonight as off tomorrow, but I honestly can’t remember what make of lorry I drive, probably would when sober , but I purely just get in the thing and drive it, I have no sense of it being my lorry, it’s just a tool of work. I can understand keeping the lorry in a reasonably clean condition, but due to some sad jobs worths who clean thier lorries inside and out every day , by hose and brush no lorry wash , I have to clean mine about twice a week when the job is job and finish. Nothing worse than cleaning a lorry when you could be at home.
You hate the job so much that you completely forget about it when you are at home, yet here you are having a nice relaxing evenings drinking and you are reading and posting on a truck drivers forum. Bit of a contradiction in terms here don’t you think.
I have left an office career behind after being made redundant and now I do enjoy my truck driving job, being out and about, etc. I am a bit of a spotter (e.g. enthusiast) as well. After a shift, I don’t like being just another car driver as I go home!
defo addictive,i miss driving class 1 all the time but the long hours put me off,i want to see my five year old son grow up but it’s all or nothing over here in bridlington,either you travel to go tramping and never be at home or get a crappy job in town,can’t have both 
switchlogic:
Fulham FC:
My God, I can’t wait to finish work and get home and leave lorry driving behind me until tomorrow, once home it’s gone . Why don’t you take up Eddie Stobbart spotting when your off work? Or even better get a bird or some mates and get a life. I bet you’ve got one of them Big ( insert name here) stickers on your lorry, possibly the sadest people of all time . I think I’m a bit sad joining up to a lorry drivers forum, bit needs must. Being on holiday and looking at foreign trucks? No I’m out getting ■■■■■■ having a laugh like normal people do.You’ve been on Trucknet less than a month and already starting to sound like a stuck record. Well done, quite an achievement
Just what i was beginning to think dear boy !!
toby1234abc:
When on holiday do you miss work and spot foreign trucks and wonder where they are going to?
When off work do you long to be in the driving seat?
Is it the best job.Getting paid to listen to the radio and admire nice scenery.
Office workers sat in the same desk all week with no views and the same boring people they pretend to like but hate them.
With power steering and air con it is not bad.
But why not many lady drivers…I see many lady horse box drivers.Why is this.
- Certainly not, briefly and no.
- Definitely not as I have a life.
3.Maybe, but depends how much.
4.I sit in the same seat all week, don’t really notice the views anymore, and still have to put up with boring people and worse.
5.OK, some stuff has improved.
6.Don’t know/ ok
/ and Couldn’t really give a toss.
Can someone please define this wonderful ‘having a life’ that everyone speaks so highly of? In my opinion having a life is knowing what makes you happy and doing it. If that’s going down the pub at the weekend, getting ■■■■■■ and watching the football all well and good. Just like if trucks are your hobby as well as job and you enjoy work, that’s having a life too. So many people on this forum need to learn the meaning of each to their own and how to let people get on with their lives as they see fit without making unneeded disparaging remarks about it.
I’m going to be sad and admit to it. When I went on holiday back to somewhere I used to live I went down to the docks and took some photos of trucks. They were different to ours and it was nice to see something new i also read all the truck magazines (they had pull out posters 
.) lorries are part of my life and I enjoy my life. I’m also quite proud to be in that ‘excellent’ 2% of drivers 
I remember an old bloke telling me if you don’t get out of driving trucks within the first 6mths you’ll be in em for life. 26yrs later he’s right. 
tallboy:
You hate the job so much that you completely forget about it when you are at home, yet here you are having a nice relaxing evenings drinking and you are reading and posting on a truck drivers forum. Bit of a contradiction in terms here don’t you think.
It’s what trolls do to get a reaction, best procedure is to just ignore them.
switchlogic:
n my opinion having a life is knowing what makes you happy and doing it.
Exactly right, I drive a truck to earn money but I’m also a petrolhead and have an interest in cars, trucks, bikes and anything old. I don’t long to be at work when I’m on holiday but if I see something that interests me then I’ll take a look.
I don’t need to get a life, I’m very contented with the one I have.
switchlogic:
Can someone please define this wonderful ‘having a life’ that everyone speaks so highly of? In my opinion having a life is knowing what makes you happy and doing it. If that’s going down the pub at the weekend, getting ■■■■■■ and watching the football all well and good. Just like if trucks are your hobby as well as job and you enjoy work, that’s having a life too. So many people on this forum need to learn the meaning of each to their own and how to let people get on with their lives as they see fit without making unneeded disparaging remarks about it.
I answered that “I have a life” in the context of the question, which was “When off work do you long to be in the driving seat” Personally I take a holiday to get away from the driving seat, as in my opinion there is more to life than driving a truck, that is my work life, my social life is a separate entity, or if you like… a different life.
I suppose on reflection it maybe did sound disparaging, but on the other hand it’s the all work, no play and Jack thing, but that’s just my opinion, but each to his own thing I suppose.
I chose the wrong to say i was spotting on holiday.I was trying to say i would just look to see where the trucks that passed were going to or come from and read the address on the unit or trailer.
I did not mean i was sat on a deck chair above a motorway bridge all day recording number plates and telling other spotters what i saw.
I am sure an airline pilot on time off does the same.
It does not make them sad or getting a life to do that.
toby1234abc:
I chose the wrong to say i was spotting on holiday.I was trying to say i would just look to see where the trucks that passed were going to or come from and read the address on the unit or trailer.
I did not mean i was sat on a deck chair above a motorway bridge all day recording number plates and telling other spotters what i saw.
I am sure an airline pilot on time off does the same.
It does not make them sad or getting a life to do that.
Well I’ve never heard of any airline pilots that are truck spotters!
robroy:
toby1234abc:
I chose the wrong to say i was spotting on holiday.I was trying to say i would just look to see where the trucks that passed were going to or come from and read the address on the unit or trailer.
I did not mean i was sat on a deck chair above a motorway bridge all day recording number plates and telling other spotters what i saw.
I am sure an airline pilot on time off does the same.
It does not make them sad or getting a life to do that.Well I’ve never heard of any airline pilots that are truck spotters!
I’ve met airline pilots that are fanatical about planes though and one had loads of models of planes at home. And I’m a bit obsessed with ferries and can lose hours on the internet reading about histories of individual ferries. Takes all sorts
I know of airline pilots that spend their free time flying radio-controlled model planes. Have to say, I find it a bit weird as would have no interest in radio-controlled lorries as a hobby.
switchlogic:
robroy:
toby1234abc:
I chose the wrong to say i was spotting on holiday.I was trying to say i would just look to see where the trucks that passed were going to or come from and read the address on the unit or trailer.
I did not mean i was sat on a deck chair above a motorway bridge all day recording number plates and telling other spotters what i saw.
I am sure an airline pilot on time off does the same.
It does not make them sad or getting a life to do that.Well I’ve never heard of any airline pilots that are truck spotters!
And I’m a bit obsessed with ferries and can lose hours on the internet reading about histories of individual ferries. Takes all sorts
Me too, Otis is my favourite followed by Bryan.
I did not say pilots spot trucks an their time off.It would be obvious they would have in interest in aircraft.Do i have to spell that out too.
You like the idiot son more than the genius father?! Madness